Great Black and White Photographers, PART 2

                                              Irving Penn

Irving Penn was born June 16th, 1917 in Plainfield New jersey. He died only a couple years ago on October 3rd, 2009 in New york City. He had attended the Philadelphia Museum school of art for four years. There, Alexey Brodovitch taught him how to advert design. He was seeking the career of being an art director, while doing so he worked two summers for Harpers Bazaar Magazines as the office boy and artistes apprentice. After graduating he became the art director of Junior League Magazine, then in later years he worked in a department store. At age 25 he quit his job and used his savings to move to Mexico. He stayed for a year where he painted. He then moved to New York where him and Alexander Liberman won a crowed and was the art director of Vogue Magazine. Most didn't like his ideas but Alex did, so Alex told Irving to go and take pictures himself. On October 1, 1943, Irvings Photo was then printed out onto the magazine an his photography career started. He then started to work in many other fields other than magazines. In the 1950s he founded his own studio in New york and continued in fashion, commercial and personal work. He continued this until he died. His work is now all over in many museums.

http://www.hamiltonsgallery.com/artists/27-Irving-Penn/overview/
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/73772.aspx